Improved paint composition



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BALL AND JOHN PARKER FORD, OF ZANESVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVED PAINT COMPOSITION.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,066. dated August 1,1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES BALL and JOHN PARKER FORD, of Zanesville, inthe county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented or discoveredanew Composition orPaint; and we do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact description thereof, reference being bad to thecontents of the accompanying vials.

The nature of our invention or discovery consists in mixing togetherlitharge, red lead, borax, and sugar of lead, and uniting the mixturewlth coal-tar madehot to facilitate the union and more perfect mixtureof the whole and while hot we-lay it on in the ordinary manner ofpainting, then cover with sand shaken from a sieve, by which roofs orother structures of timber are rendered fire-proof on the side coveredwith the paint or composition.

What we claim as our invention or discovery is Not the use of coal-taras a paint for roofs, but the addition of litharge, red lead, borax, andsugar of lead to coal -tar, thereby giving body and drying qualities tothe composition and making a durable covering to a roof or otherwood-work to which it may be applied.

JAMES BALL. JOHN PARKER FORD. In presence of- W. G. STIGKNEY, HUGHBROOK.

